THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Then take ycuir fellow who is over- 

 worked. Nine times out of ten it isn't 

 overwork but over-worry. Worry will 

 kill much quicker than work. 



No, the average man does not have 

 enough to do. lie may tliijik he has. 

 Init watch liim a little while anil you 

 will see he hasn't. Give iiiin a big job 

 to do, make it necessary for him to 

 pkm his work and develop system and 

 that man will generally accomplish 

 greater results with less labor than the 

 fellow who doesn't have enough to do. 



Don't Bee-Keepers Know Foul 

 Brood? 



It is hardly conceivable that in this 

 day and age, bee-keepers with any ex- 

 perience whatever should not knov.- 

 American foul lirood. and yet there i-^ 

 something radically wrong somewhere, 

 as is shown by the following extract ta- 

 ken from a letter recently received from 

 Michigan's Foul Brood Inspector: 



"Now, Mr. Tyrrell, in all seriousness, 

 I think the bee-keepers themselves are 

 more to blame than an_\one else for the 

 spread of foul brood. Too many of 

 them do not seem t(5 know the dis- 

 ease until it reaches its last stage. 1 

 have gone into the apiaries of some of 

 your members ( M. B. K. A.) who told 

 me prior to my inspection that they had 

 no foul brood and never had, yet 1 

 proved to them that they had it last 

 year, and in some instances nearly if iu.)t 

 quite half of their apiaries were affected 

 this year. 



"Then another thing: two-thirds of ail 

 the inspection I have done so far I have 

 had to go out and 'dig up' for myself. 

 For instance, I stopped over one train at 



, and one man who has So colonies 



of bees said he had no disease in his 

 apiary, yet every hive I examined was 

 diseased. In another yard containing 51 

 colonies within 80 rods of the first men- 

 tioned, a man had cleaned out an ex- 

 tracting super which contained some 

 brood and a little honey and had laid 



the conilis on a hive for the liees to 

 'clean up.' I examined this comb an-l 

 found it very badly diseased, yet I was 

 informed when I first arrived that there 

 was no foul ];rood there. 



1 have h,ad but one call so far from a 

 member of the Association for an in- 

 spection, and but three akogether. Now. 

 if the Association members would take 

 this matter up and let me know where 

 foul brood exists I could lay out a regu- 

 lar route and do nnich more work. 



"I am putting in all my time at this 

 work and my heart is in it, and with the 

 proper co-operation on the part of the 

 n:embers of the Association much more 

 could be done. I have been at work as 

 early as live o'clock in the morning, and 

 have been trying to cover all the terri- 

 tory I could and do the work well. 

 "Very truly yours, 



"G. E. SANDERS. 



"710 Kalamazoo St. W., 



"Lansing, Mich." 



Right here let me say that Mr. San- 

 ders visited me last spring, right after 

 his appointment as inspector, to fill the 

 place of Hon. R. L. Taylor, who re- 

 signed. I was much impressed with his 

 earnestness, and believed he would 

 "make good." I have received some 

 very flattering letters concerning his 

 work, of which this is a sample : 



"G. E. Sanders, the State Foul Brood 

 Inspector, has just completed his second 

 visit to this vicinity. He has inspected 

 25 apiaries in and around Greenville. Of" 

 these 17 had foul brood. Same were 

 mostly rotten with the disease. 



"Mr. Sanders is certainly seeing to it 

 that the owners are cleaning it up. Give 

 him all the help you can, as it will cer- 

 tainly be pushing a good thing along. 

 "FRANK RASMUSSEN. 



"Greenville, ^lich. 



"June 16th." 



But the real question is this : What's 

 the matter with our bee-keepers? Don't 

 they know foul brood, or don't they 



